Live Tournament Updates
Level 7 Begins
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
The players return from break to begin Level 7, with increased blinds of 500-1,000 and a 200 ante. There are 230 players remaining, with the average chip count just a little less than 60,000.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:55 AM, 10/13/08
15-Minute Break
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
Level 6 comes to an end, and the players take a 15-minute break.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:40 AM, 10/13/08
Seif Kings Cracked; Eliminated from the Tournament
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
A short-stacked Mark Seif is all in preflop against Daniel Snajdman.
Seif shows K
K
while Snajdman shows A
Q.
The board comes KJ8107 to give Snajdman a straight and the pot. Seif is eliminated in yet another painful fashion. (Seif had his aces cracked at the WPT Borgata Open final table last month.)
10:32 AM, 10/13/08
Erik Cajelais Continues Aggression From Yesterday
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
A player from the cut off raises to 2,200 and the small blind makes a re-raise of 6,200. Erik Cajelais sits in the big blind and makes yet another re-raise to 18,200. His two opponents fold. Yesterday we saw Erik call a 17,200 all in re-raise with King-ten and make a huge push with pocket sevens.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:24 AM, 10/13/08
Table 27: Van Zadelhoff Only Shows One Card -- Twice
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
Steven Silva raises from the cutoff to 2,500, and Steven Van Zadelhoff reraises from the button to 7,700. Silva (with about 34,500 behind) thinks for about 30 seconds before he flashes one card to Van Zadelhoff and asks if he was any good. Van Zadelhoff shakes his head, and Silva folds.
Van Zadelhoff holds his cards tightly and shows one -- the K
. He then sets his cards on the table and shows them again -- only this time the king is the K.
Van Zadelhoff says something like, "Remember, I only showed you one card."
10:19 AM, 10/13/08
Table 27: Kerstin Tooley's Turn
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
Kerstin Tooley is the sole woman at Table 27, seated next to Daniel Negreanu. She raises from middle position to 3,000, and takes the blinds and antes. The next hand, she says, "I enjoyed that so much, I'll try it again." She raises from early position to 3,000, and everyone folds again, and she takes the blinds twice in a row. Daniel Negreanu, with about 23,700 in chips, says he folded pocket fives, and Donald Lloyd says he folded pocket sixes to her. Negreanu tells Tooley that she must be pretty respected to have two players lay down pocket pairs to her.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:15 AM, 10/13/08
Table 27: Steven Van Zadelhoff Adds a Few Chips
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
Steven Van Zadelhoff raises from early position to 2,200, and a player calls from middle position. The flop comes J98, and both players check. The turn card is the 2, Van Zadelhoff bets 2,400, and his opponent calls.
The river card pairs the board with the 9, and both players check. Van Zadelhoff shows 77 for a pair of sevens and a missed gutshot straight draw, while his opponent shows K10 for a missed open-ended straight draw.
Steven Van Zadelhoff wins the pot, building his stack to about 64,000.
10:10 AM, 10/13/08
Daniel Negreanu's Goal in Life
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
After seeing the dealer count out the deck after a hand, Daniel Negreanu asks him if he didn't just do that a few minutes earlier. The dealer informs him that they have to count the deck twice per button round. Negreanu is shocked at this, calling it a silly rule. He wonders what kind of problem they have had in the past with players holding on to cards. Negreanu declares to the table, "I'll get this rule changed. It's my new goal in life."
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship10:06 AM, 10/13/08
Table 27: Van Zadelhoff Is the Victim of a "Kapowski"
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
Steven Van Zadelhoff raises from early position to 2,200, and Donald Lloyd calls from the big blind. The flop comes 1052, Lloyd checks, Van Zadelhoff bets 2,600, and Lloyd instantly raises to 7,000.
If you remember, Lloyd just check-raised Daniel Negreanu in a similar fashion a few minutes ago. Negreanu says, "Kapowski! Pow! Pow! Pow!" to punctuate the raise. Van Zadelhoff rechecks his cards and folds, and Lloyd takes the pot.
10:04 AM, 10/13/08
Odds Maker
Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante
Just in case you were wondering, the odds of flopping a royal flush are 1 in 649,740.
Sorted In: Tournaments, Fallsview Casino Resort, Season VII, North American Poker Championship09:58 AM, 10/13/08
